Class Notes

Anna Roberts Ware wrote right away. I usually put her note in a safe place hoping for more news. I lost it and finally found it on the Class Notes due date. Thank you, Anna, for being on time. She enjoyed watching the celebration of the 50th anniversary of The Beatles’ first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, found herself humming to Yesterday, and said she’d never paid attention to them before. Her daughter was coming for dinner and to take her grocery shopping. At her January family reunion, Anna walked between two men in 4 inches of snow. She was the oldest; the youngest was 7 months. Anna hadn’t been able to get in touch with Nancy Gravatt Tucker and Nettie Evans Lawrey.

Elizabeth Cumby Murray plays bridge every week and duplicate sometimes. She uses a cane and drives but doesn’t travel. In 60 years in Nantucket, she’d never seen a winter as cold and snowy. Her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren were well and thriving.

Mary Ellen Starkey was doing well, uses a cane, and has a lady in to help her. Isabel Hildrup Klein moved to a Southport, N.C., health and rehabilitation center. I hadn’t been able to get in touch with Isabel since she told me Bob passed away this winter. She has support from family and was expecting her first great-grandchild.

Nancy Turner Duval Andrews ’44, mother of Mary Turner Andrews Deworken ’75, passed away in August. Mary said her mother was proud of her ties to Mary Washington College and the Class of ’44, and shared happy memories from MWC with her family. Mary thanks the college and Nancy’s friends for helping make her the special person she was.

I (Phyllis Quimby Anderson) play bridge, sing in the choir and volunteer at church, do Meals on Wheels with my son, and am in the Red Hat Society. I walk with a cane if it’s icy, and I don’t drive at night. My son has been staying here, deciding whether to go back to his house in Utah. He’s been a big help in and around the house. He has his first car, a ’55 Thunderbird, here and has been working on it. My newly married daughter and her husband live upstairs in sort of an apartment while they house hunt. I expected my fourth great-grandchild in August.